Facilitating quality improvement: Pushing the pendulum back toward process measures

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1333-1334

  Bilimoria, Karl Y ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON RESECTION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DISINFECTION; DRUG CHOICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRENDS;

PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84943416233     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.12470     Document Type: Note

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